Sun Touched Embers

Chapter 3: A Request

(Third person point of view)
While sleeping beneath the covers of her futon, Taki jolted awake and sat upright at sunrise after a crow loudly cawed in her ear. "What the hell?! Why the hell would this crow wake me up in that way?!", she thought as the crow landed on her shoulder. She then noticed the crow had a rolled up letter tied to his leg. "A letter?", she thought. "Taki, what is it?", Takeo asked her as he woke up and sat upright in his futon. "Takeo, is anyone else awake?", she asked. "No. Why?", he replied. "Takeo, can you please help me wake everyone else up? I have a feeling this crow belongs to one of us.", she said. "Yes, Taki.", he replied. After being woken up by him, they got up from the floor. Upon standing up, Kyojuro recognized the crow sitting on Taki's shoulder. "Kaname.", he said. "You know this crow?", she asked. "Yes. He's my messenger crow.", he answered before removing the letter tied around the male crow's leg. Kyojuro opened up the letter and looked down in surprise after seeing what was written on it. "Hey, what's wrong?", Nezuko asked. "Our leader is already aware of where I am and has requested for me to bring Taki back with me when I return home.", he replied. "How come?", Hanako asked. "That part I'm not quite sure on right now, but I'll probably find out.", he replied. Taki got up and walked over to the dresser to grab some clothing from it. She then exited the bedroom and went into one of the house's other rooms to get herself dressed. When she came back into the bedroom, she hugged her family. "We'll miss you, Taki.", Takeo said. "I'm going to miss you all too.", she responded just as Tanjuro handed her the sword their family treasured.